Greek Icons

the exhibition “Approaching Heaven” featuring Icons of the Velimezis Collection from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and the Benaki Museum.
THE ENTIRE COLLECTION

i told the girls we should go to see it and they gave me the usual "dema3'ek"
so losers
it was worth watching really

some scenes are demonstrated in multiple icons (cross, christ's birth, ... etc)
those greek icons presents the Byzantine art in the middle ages, it has some similarity with the coptic art
(golden backgrounds, 2D perspectives, red for saints and kings, yellow hollow around the head, big eyes and forehead, ... )
i recommend that u all read the book "كيف تقرأ الأيقونة", it's very usefull
honestly, I was proud to look at these icons knowing that i share same believes and heritage with those artists

Keep Christ in Christmas

some years ago bo2bo2 sent me an email with this title
and it's about how the devil fight the existence of Christ in our lives by eliminating christ and replace it with "X"
to xmas instead of christmas
usual email, no big deal
BUT since this email, i was watching the christmas every year and how much is in it about jesus christ
and finally this year i found out that christmas in the western world is about santa, gifts, shopping, north pole, ............................................................................................... (another million things) but not christ
i did some research on the net
1- Greeting card
when searching about a christmas greeting card,, all the results are about santa, elves, whatever else
BUT if you want a christmas card about christ you have to use another search "religious cards" or "nativity" as if christmas isn't religious occasion but rather socially and christ picture is what give the social occasion a religious look
2-Gift
when searching for christmas gifts, again it's all about items with santa's pic on
3- movies
again and again, it's about an old man with red clothes called santa

where's christ in all this???? as a coptic i found it insulting to ignore christ in his birth?
is't the conspiracy theory that i use here to analyze this
conspiracy led by the devil
(ok, i'm talking like the old sunday school teachers we used to mock them a lot, but let's b it. i'm a sunday school teacher after all)
i'm not against santa but i'm with jesus

santa isn't really santa, it's saint Nicholas, another link

so, let us see how everything was manipulated to draw attention away from jesus christ
saint nicholas become santa claus
saint nicholas was a bishop, santa is an old man with red clothes
saint nicholas used to help people by throwing money to their houses using the window, which become santa throwing gifts to the children throwing their chimneys
the needy people whose saint nicholas was helping, become little kids who were good all year
the only relation between the christmas (christ's birth and saint nicholas) is that both occasions happen in the same month in the coptic calender
the christmas is on 29 keyahk, and saint nicholas is on the 10th
it's a clever game from the devil, after all the december starts with saint nicholas feast
But
people please think of it for a second:
saint nicholas didn't save us, it's jesus christ
saint nicholas story will not be there if christ wasn't here in the first place
with jesus christ the story begin
story of a religion and saints over the centuries
story that will end with the end of time
celebrate santa in his day, and christ in every day
christmas is about christ's birth not santa's gifts